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Description
A dazzling orchestral disc of music from the Jewish tradition of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Bruch’s Kol Nidrei is one of the most well-loved works in the cello repertoire. The descending opening phrase of the cello line is instantly recognizable: a universal, extraordinarily expressive utterance.
The main part of the disc comprises the works for cello and orchestra by Ernest Bloch, all part of his ‘Jewish cycle’. The most famous is Schelomo, a work inspired by passages from Ecclesiastes, where the cello, playing a deeply lyric and speaking line of prodigious technical difficulty, can be seen as ‘the incarnation of King Solomon’, as Bloch himself wrote. The other large-scale work for cello and orchestra, Voice in the Wilderness, is of a darker hue. Both works reveal a composer whose works should be firmly in the canon of twentieth-century symphonic writing.
The cellist here is Natalie Clein, a celebrated figure in British musical life since winning BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1995 and now a formidable artist, possessed of great musical, technical and intellectual gifts.
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. <b>Schelomo</b> [20'06] <b><i>Ernest Bloch</i></b>
- 2. <b>From Jewish Life</b>, Prayer [3'48] <b><i>Ernest Bloch / Christopher Palm
- 3. <b>From Jewish Life</b>, Supplication [2'16] <b><i>Ernest Bloch / Christophe
- 4. <b>From Jewish Life</b> Jewish Song [2'21] <b><i>Ernest Bloch / Christopher
- 5. <b>Voice in the Wilderness</b>, Moderato [2'45] <b><i>Ernest Bloch</i>
- 6. <b>Voice in the Wilderness</b>, Poco lento [4'01] <b><i>Ernest Bloch</i&g
- 7. <b>Voice in the Wilderness</b>, Moderato [2'34] <b><i>Ernest Bloch</i>
- 8. <b>Voice in the Wilderness</b>, Adagio piacevole [4'37] <b><i>Ernest Bloch&l
- 9. <b>Voice in the Wilderness</b>, Poco agitato Cadenza [4'00] <b><i>Ernest Blo
- 10. <b>Voice in the Wilderness</b>, Allegro gioioso [5'58] <b><i>Ernest Bloch<
- 11. <b>Kol Nidrei</b> Op 47 [9'03] <b><i>Max Bruch</i></b>
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